Tobias Sylvester
Lauretta Onochie, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, has clashed with the Ovation CEO, Dele Momodu, for describing her principal as a failure.
Momodu had shared a post on his Twitter page in reply to Nigerians who were criticising him for being among those who brought President Buhari into power.
He wrote: “I did not bring Buhari. I did what most reasonable Democrats would have done in the circumstance of PDP’s failure after 16 years in power by trying the next most electable candidate and when he failed tried the next…”
Uncomfortable with his comment, Onochie replied on her Twitter handle saying: “‘Failed’ because he (Buhari) won’t dish out cash for photos that can easily be obtained on Instagram and other picture apps.”
She added, “Because #BabaNoDeyDrop, your ego-massaging, ostentatious and filthy-wealth-flaunting customers, can no longer afford you (Momodu). Try Diversification!”
He "Failed" because he won't dish out cash for photos that can easily be obtained on Instagram and other picture apps.#BabaNoDeyDrop.
Because #BabaNoDeyDrop, your ego-massaging, ostentatious and filthy-wealth-flaunting customers, can no longer afford you.
Try Diversification! https://t.co/z9RhgCzzdc
— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) January 8, 2021
Momodu fired back at Onochie, saying she’s a troublesome lady and scavenger.
My attention has just been drawn to a reaction to one of my tweets from a troublesome lady called Lauretta, one of those scavengers who litter government offices in Nigeria who are given big official titles for decoration but actually have no access to their so-called bosses… pic.twitter.com/JSnbI7oson
— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
Lauretta's grouse is that I said I considered Buhari's government a failure. Have I said anything new? From Arewa, to Igbo, to Yoruba groups, everyone has expressed same sentiments & what I would have expected was a simple list of Buhari's achievements but she attacked my person. pic.twitter.com/Jvxfi3Lpqz
— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
She went their usual route of cheap blackmail that "Buhari has failed because he's not paying…" us cash. Lauretta picked on a wrong customer once again. When a child buys a pair of shoes for his one-legged Dad, he should be ready to hear some true tales. I'm not a govt jobber!! pic.twitter.com/QDlgkclOIV
— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
Since she's never done any business in her life, she assumes we are all scavengers:
1. Your boss Buhari was my colleague in 2011 when we were both Presidential candidates
2. I spent my hard-earned money on Buhari's campaign without asking for anything. Pls, where were you? pic.twitter.com/8p3y0zLBXV— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
3. I told President Buhari in 2015 that I will write my opinion of him regularly the way I did to President Jonathan & he said why not. So who's Lauretta to say I can't express myself freely? I know your third rate job makes you important. Bashir Ahmad and Tolu Ogunlesi are ahead pic.twitter.com/FLSWxdYnIo
— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
4. Lauretta advised me to diversify. You must have been busy looking for appointments when I expanded into public relations, television, social media, etc. If you had your business, the National Assembly wouldn't have disgraced you!! Let me stop here for now… I have your time. pic.twitter.com/pYO9MScBw4
— Dele Momodu Ovation (@DeleMomodu) January 8, 2021
This is coming a few weeks after the Senate rejected the appointment of Lauretta Onochie, as a INEC National Commissioner after she was nominated by President Buhari.
